• Our Exceptional Racism

    Our Exceptional Racism

    Douglas establishes that it isn’t about a singular Florida law that should concern us, but the culture which creates it.

  • Speaking is acting

    Speaking is acting

    We’ve made a faulty conclusion: that speaking isn’t acting. We couldn’t be more wrong.

  • Hunger

    Hunger

    In Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness, we get a picture of resistance bigger than willpower and faith. A resistance to becoming powerful at all. Resisting temptation and power with JesusLent 1C | Luke 4:1-13 He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. It was a traditional practice…

  • About the Food

    About the Food

    We mistake the purpose of ashes – our symbol of mortality – for only being about death. They are also an invitation to life.

  • A Love Superpower

    A Love Superpower

    The Transfiguration is the showstopper. But what happens when Jesus comes down the mountain reminds us what Jesus is really doing.

  • Rich

    Rich

    There’s a strange view people have about money: that it somehow is permanently theirs.

  • When our need to protect the powerful actually preserves division

    When our need to protect the powerful actually preserves division

    We treat our divisions like conundrums: unsolvable and eternal. They’re neither. We just need to take their depth more seriously.

  • The United Methodist Church didn’t listen to Jesus yesterday.

    The United Methodist Church didn’t listen to Jesus yesterday.

    Today the United Methodist Church stepped away from unity. In fact, the only path toward unity was on the table and a simple majority rejected it.